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Daniel’s 70 Weeks Prophecy UNSEALED and REVEALED

By Jim Sayles

Of all the timelines God has given us in scripture the most interesting and compelling is Daniel’s seventy weeks prophecy, a prophecy that was sealed from our understanding in earlier years and was consequently grossly misinterpreted before it was unsealed for this current generation who will experience it. Yet, the revelatory understanding of Daniel 9:24-27 is the most encouraging, inspiring, and empowering prophecy for the end time body of Christ in all scripture.

It is no wonder, then, that Satan focused on corrupting the understanding of this prophecy intended by the Father to equip the very generation of the body of Christ that will experience it, a generation that includes many of those who are reading this commentary now.

When I finally arrived at a Spirit-revealed, Spirit-confirmed understanding of this passage in spite of my interpretational bias, I was both shocked and literally overwhelmed with joy at the prophetic future of the end time body of Christ as revealed in Daniel 9:24-27. Those believers who receive this same Spirit-revealed, Spirit-confirmed understanding as they examine this passage will be similarly filled with joy and purpose, rather than hoping for an escape because of fear related to the God-ordained time of testing. Unfortunately, the vast majority of protestant Christianity expects the church to be whisked away in a secret, not disclosed in scripture, “rapture,” prior to a time identified as “tribulation,” which is also grossly misunderstood. Yet, any such removal totally contradicts the Lord’s assignment for the body of Christ until the “end of the age.” Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Matthew 28:19,20 NASB

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The end of the age is likewise perfectly identified in the following passages as the last day resurrection of all the saints beginning with Adam all the way to the 7th trumpet resurrection on some future “last day” 1 Tishri of God’s calendar for the redemption of fallen mankind in Christ. See also: Matthew 13:39,40; Matthew 13:49,50; Matthew 24:3 Are we, therefore, in such fear concerning things to come that in our distrust of the Lord we willingly agree to abandon His commission to the “end of the age” as our spiritual knees tremble in fear of what Satan will do? The belief that the body of Christ will escape “tribulation” through a “pre-tribulation rapture” seven years before the end of the age was originally made popular by Sir Robert Anderson, a Scotland Yard detective made famous for his part in the unsolved Jack the Ripper serial murders in London. In “The Coming Prince,” published in 1894 by Sir Robert Anderson, a member of the Zionist (Jewish supremacy in the covenant intent of the Father) “Plymouth Brethren” denomination, Sir Robert’s thesis was based entirely on his interpretation of Daniel’s seventy weeks prophecy (Daniel 9:24-27). But his interpretation of the future 70th week, upon which the secret pre-tribulation “rapture” of church only saints largely depends, is totally incorrect. Yet, because it has been accepted and promoted as the truth for more than a century, it is presumed to be correct by many though it is in complete denial of the astonishing truth intended by the Author and origin of all biblical scripture for this very generation of the body of Christ. Sir Robert Anderson was a cohort of fellow Plymouth Brethren, John Nelson Darby, the primary modern popularizer of the Zionism (Jewish supremacy in the covenant intent of the Father) and Dispensationalism (multiple covenants of redemption), along with Cyrus Schofield, also a member of the Plymouth Brethren, whose study Bible has been used by thousands of seminary students around the world to promote the corrupt Zionist, Dispensational view. Sir Robert’s Zionist view was that the Father’s covenant intent was and still is for national, ethnic Israel, but scripture reveals that the Father’s covenant intent was for THE “seed” of Abraham, Jesus of Nazareth, not for national, ethnic Israel. Likewise, scripture reveals that there is only one covenant of redemption, the New Covenant between God the Father and Jesus the Son, the only descendent Abraham who was able to walk by faith in all of the covenant requirements. These Plymouth Brethren Zionists were the initial popularizers of the pre-tribulation “rapture” theory, concluding that Daniel 9:24-27, along with the remainder of Daniel, indicates:

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1) That the antichrist “man of sin” will sign or confirm a seven-year treaty with

Israel and many other nations, initiating a seven year “tribulation”.

2) During this seven year tribulation God will discipline national, ethnic Israel and then bring salvation to “all Israel” (meaning national, ethnic Israel; i.e. the Zionist belief that Israel and the Jewish people are still the primary covenant intent of the Father) immediately prior to the Lord’s millennial reign in Jerusalem in fulfillment of His promise to Abraham (i.e. the belief that the promise to the “seed” of Abraham was not fulfilled to Jesus of Nazareth);

3) All this all happens after the church, having apparently failed in its commission to the end of the age, (i.e. removed before the end of the age in abject failure) is rewarded for our failure by being removed from the “trouble,” though the Philadelphian identity, persevering and overcoming during “tribulation” is promised protection “in” great tribulation, and this promise to Philadelphian believers has nothing whatsoever to do with an escape by “rapture.” Thus, the promise of the Lord to Philadelphian believers is denied. Rev. 3:7-13

What we learn instead in Daniel 12:4 is that Daniel’s prophecies were sealed up until the time of the end, meaning that the revelatory understanding was not available until the time of the end. Thus, the correct revelatory understanding of Daniel 9:24-27 was not available to Sir Robert Anderson, but during the time of the end, which time is now, the revelatory understanding of God’s purposes will be increased and become great. But you, O Daniel, shut up the words and seal the Book until …(when?)…the time of the end. [Then]…(which is now)…many shall run to and fro and search anxiously [through the Book], and…(the revelatory)…knowledge [of God's purposes as revealed by His prophets]…(all of His prophets, including Daniel)…shall be increased and become great. Daniel 12:4 Amplified (inserts and emphasis are the author’s) Two truths ignored by Sir Robert Anderson and all those who have accepted his thesis as “truth,” are clearly revealed in Daniel 12:4:

1) The “time of the end” refers to a generation who will literally experience the events described in scripture, but Sir Robert Anderson was not in that future generation who would experience those events. He has long since passed away, and the revelatory truth of Daniel 9 was not unsealed in his lifetime, meaning

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that the revelatory truth was not available to him. Thus, his non-Spirit-guided intellectual conjectures were totally erroneous.

2) Revelatory knowledge of God’s end time purposes as revealed by all of God’s

prophets will be increased and become great during the time of the end, which time has already begun, and these events will be experienced by the very generation reading this text.

This sealing followed by the ultimate unsealing and revealing of God’s revelatory intent is also seen in the Lord’s own words as recorded in Mark 4:22 Ampliified: For nothing is hidden, except to be revealed; nor has anything been kept secret, but that it would come to light [that is, things are hidden only temporarily, until the appropriate time comes for them to be known]. (emphasis is the author’s) As the Lord explained, the purpose, then, of the Father sealing certain biblical prophecies, is to reveal them only at the time ordained for them to be revealed to the generation or the people for whom they were intended. Any attempt to interpret these prophecies before the “appropriate” time ordained by the Father then results in a false or incomplete understanding, and any false or incomplete understanding taught authoritatively as the absolute, immutable, revelatory truth of God becomes a stumbling block of tradition opposed to the absolute, immutable, revelatory truth of God when that truth is available to the generation for whom it is intended (i.e. at “the appropriate time”) “The Book” is Daniel’s book, but the sealing of biblical prophecies concerning the final days of the end times includes numerous end time prophetic passages throughout the entirety of biblical scripture. (i.e. “…God’s purposes as revealed by His prophets…”), meaning all the prophecies concerning the final days of the end times. Knowing that much of end time prophecy was sealed from both our understanding and Satan’s understanding, Satan, through the Jezebel spirit, has been busy introducing false doctrine and false interpretations of prophecy into the organized church in order to obfuscate the end time revelation of God’s purposes as they were written down by His prophets prior to their unsealing. In this Satan has effectively hindered the revelatory understanding of those upon whom the fulfillment of the ages has come. Likewise, we are instructed by the Lord that the truth about “things to come” is only received as the Spirit of truth supernaturally “guides” our intellects into the revelatory truth as that truth is confirmed in scripture.

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But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come. John 16:13 NASB Thus, the revelatory truth of Daniel 9:24-27 was not available until that truth was unsealed and revealed to the generation who would experience it, and then, only to those believers with “ears to hear” what the Spirit is currently revealing. Pray, then, for ears to hear, because Daniel 9:24-27 is the most astonishing, empowering, and encouraging prophecy in all scripture for the generation who will experience it. If we examine Daniel 9:24-27 without any predisposition toward the popularly believed Zionist (Jewish supremacy in the covenant intent of the Father), dispensational (multiple covenants of redemption) interpretation, the first thing we would note is that the theme of the passage is the fulfillment of God’s plan of covenant redemption in Christ. We would also note that the seven purposes of the seventy weeks describe God’s seven primary purposes for the fulfillment of the New Covenant written in the blood of Jesus Christ (i.e. Seven is the number of Christ). We would then accurately presume that the covenant being confirmed is the New Covenant written in the blood of Jesus Christ, not some supposed covenant between the antichrist “man of sin,” political Israel, and the “many” as presumed by Sir Robert, and assumed by dispensationalists. But, because this generation is predisposed toward the Zionist dispensational interpretation introduced by Sir Robert Anderson, we need to examine the passage more closely and with revelatory insight. The Daniel 9:24-27 prophecy is related to Daniel’s people, the Israelites, but at the resurrection of Christ the prophecy no longer relates to national, ethnic Israel but to spiritual, “born-again” Israel, the “Israel of God” in Christ. It also relates to the “holy city,” Jerusalem, which is not holy at this present time and is described in Revelation as “the habitation of devils,” and the antichrist capital of “Babylon the great” but will ultimately become holy again as the millennial capital of the King of kings and Lord of lords. Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. Daniel 9:24 KJV

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The seven purposes of the seventy weeks (of prophetic years) are to:

1) finish the transgression;

2) make an end of sins;

3) make reconciliation for iniquity;

4) bring in everlasting righteousness;

5) seal up the vision;

6) seal up prophecy;

7) anoint the Holy of Holies (as King of kings).

Do these seven (number of Christ) specific purposes appear to have anything to do with Satan’s antichrist “man of sin”? It is important to understand that the entire seventy weeks (of years) of this prophecy are to ultimately fulfill the seven primary redemptive covenant purposes of Messiah. The covenant being confirmed, then, must conform to the entire construct and purpose of the seventy weeks. And he…(“Messiah the Prince” v.25)… shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:…(of years, i.e. 7 years)…and in the midst of the week…(of years)… he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. Daniel 9:27 KJV The Hebrew word being translated as “confirm” (Strong’s H2077) conveys the meaning of binding up that which has been broken, and this binding up is done with great power and strength. The covenant between God and Abraham was demonstrated to be a conditional covenant that required perfect compliance with the entirety of the Law and the prophets, as well as the ceremonial sacrifices for sin. And though the practice of these requirements demonstrated the obedient faith responses of those who participated in them, the sacrifices themselves did not redeem any of the participants. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. Hebrews 10:4 KJV Yet, God’s sovereignty under the initial covenant with Adam allows him to “reckon” (judge) those who respond to Him by faith as “righteous,” and it was the Old Testament saints from Adam forward, having died prior to the Lord’s first advent, who awaited the resurrection of Jesus Christ in “Abraham’s bosom” before ascending into heaven with

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Christ. These now await their ultimate redemption at the 1 Tishri “last day” (of the age) “feast of trumpets” resurrection along with all the rest of the saints of God from Adam forward. The intent of God is also demonstrated to be the covenant between God and THE “seed” of Abraham, the Son of Man, Jesus Christ, through His perfect compliance with the Law and prophets as the Son of Man on behalf of mankind. This, then, is THE covenant being confirmed in this passage, a covenant that “binds up” the original broken covenant between God and Adam through the “last Adam,” Jesus of Nazareth. For if the…(covenant)…inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise. Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added…(as the condition required for the binding up of the original covenant broken by Adam)… because of transgressions, till the seed…(of Abraham, Jesus Christ)…should come to whom the promise was made….(and by whom the covenant was bound up and made complete)… Galatians 3:18,19 KJV (insert and emphasis is the author’s)

Notice, first of all, that the promised covenant was not to national, ethnic Israel, but

to THE seed of Abraham, Jesus of Nazareth. Notice secondly that the covenant being confirmed is specifically related to the

seven purposes, and the seven purposes of the seventy weeks are related to God’s redemptive covenant purpose in Christ.

Therefore, the perversion of this prophecy to supposedly reveal a seven year “treaty” between the antichrist “man of sin,” Israel, and the many is intended by the originator of that doctrine, Satan, to conceal the true meaning of the prophecy from those for whom it is intended. That we have not generally recognized this deception of claiming that the title of “prince” belongs to the antichrist “man of sin,” is proof that, until this present time, this prophecy has been “sealed” by the Spirit of truth. It is also proof that protestant Christianity in general has been thoroughly deceived by “Zionism,” which is the belief that Israel and the Jewish race are still the primary covenant intent of the Father, though scripture clearly reveals that the covenant was always intended for Jesus of Nazareth and all those who have received Him as Lord and Savior, which includes both Jews and Gentiles as “one new man” in Christ identified as the “Israel of God” (i.e. those Jews and Gentiles who are in Christ by faith). This becomes perfectly clear as we examine the seven purposes of the seventy weeks.

1st purpose: “finish the transgression”

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The “transgression” is Israel’s covenant rebellion against God and their rejection of the full manifestation of God’s presence among them in the person of Jesus Christ. Transgression is not merely rejecting God. Transgression is the rejection of God by those who are in a covenant relationship with Him. Therefore, if the fullness of this prophecy was about national, ethnic Israel, then the first purpose has not, yet, been fulfilled, because, with few exceptions, they are still in rebellion against God and are still rejecting the manifestation of His presence in and through Jesus Christ. But the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ ended the transgression of national, ethnic Israel, by ending their possession of the title-deed to the covenant as the New Covenant was established with spiritual Israel, comprised of both Jew and Gentile as “one new man” in Christ, THE “seed” of Abraham for whom the covenant was always intended. (Galatians 3:16) The old covenant ended with the establishment of the new, and national, ethnic Israel’s covenant transgression against God ended at the same time, resulting in the dispersion of national, ethnic Israel into the nations in judgment. Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you...(national, ethnic Israel)...and given to a nation...(spiritual Israel, the “Israel of God,” which is the corporate body of Christ, a holy nation comprised of both Gentiles and Jews as one new man...bringing forth the fruits...(of the kingdom of God)...thereof. Matthew 21:43 KJV (inserts and emphasis are the author’s) This is not a “replacement” of Israel in the covenant intent of the Father. Israel as a nation, and the Jewish people as a race, were never the ultimate covenant intent of the Father. The intent from the beginning was to establish an unbreakable, everlasting covenant between the Father and Jesus of Nazareth, “the” seed of Abraham, and all those from Adam forward who would be included in this covenant either by faith in Jesus Christ or by God’s sovereign reckoning. Israel and the Jewish people were carriers of the bloodline of THE seed of Abraham, and they participated in the covenant through obedience until THE seed fulfilled all the covenant requirements and was resurrected as “Lord” and “King” over spiritual Israel consisting of both Jews and Gentiles as “one new man” in Him. With the transgression ended and “the” covenant now belonging to spiritual Israel, the Israel of God in Christ, there is no imaginable purpose for removing the church so that God can restore the covenant once again to national, ethnic Israel.

2nd purpose: “make an end of sins” – 3rd purpose: “make reconciliation for iniquity” – 4th purpose: “bring in everlasting righteousness” -

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The crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ made an end of sins for those who receive Him by faith, and we who were once guilty of iniquity have been reconciled. Likewise, at His resurrection everlasting righteousness belongs to those who are spiritually incorporated in Him. This specific purpose was initiated at Pentecost but will not be completed until the last day resurrection of both the living and the dead saints. The final three purposes of sealing up (completing) the vision, sealing up (completing) prophecy, and anointing the Most Holy are yet to be fulfilled. “Messiah the Prince” and “the prince that shall come” – Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince …(Jesus of Nazareth)…shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. Daniel 9:25 KJV Seven weeks of years (49 years) and threescore (60) and two weeks (of years) = 7 weeks + 62 weeks = 69 weeks x 7 = 483 years. Seventy weeks of years, 490 years, is determined (by God), beginning with the commandment to restore and to rebuild Jerusalem. The coming of Messiah the Prince is at the completion of the 483 years, leaving 7 years from the beginning of Messiah the Prince’s ministry to the completion of His confirming of the covenant with many. (i.e. 70 weeks of years = 490 years). At the beginning of the Lord’s ministry, not the beginning of His life, seven (7) years remained to be fulfilled. The coming of the Anointed One, “Messiah the Prince,” is not the event of His birth, or the 490 years would already have been completed. The coming of the Anointed One, a Prince, to confirm the everlasting covenant with many, is at the beginning of His earthly ministry shortly after being tested by Satan for forty days in the wilderness. Based on the appointed times given to Israel, the forty days Jesus was tested by Satan in the wilderness began on 1 Aelul and ended on 10 Tishri. This includes the thirty days of Teshuva and ten days of awe, also called ten days of repentance, and it was on 10 Tishri, which is Yom Kippur or the Day of Atonement, that the Lord announced His ministry in the synagogue by reading Isaiah 61:1,2. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor. Luke 4:18,19 KJV

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483 years of the 490 years were fulfilled on 10 Tishri as the Lord read Isaiah 61:1,2, and announced His ministry of redemption. This is demonstrated again as follows: 7 weeks (49 years): from the command to restore and rebuild Jerusalem by the King of Persia (Ezra 7) to the dedication of the second temple > (at the beginning of a Jubilee year); 62 weeks (434 years): from the dedication of the second temple to the beginning of the Lord’s ministry as the scroll is opened on Yom Kippur and He reads Isaiah 61:1,2. Had the Lord fulfilled all the seven purposes of the seventy weeks of years, then His complete ministry would have begun on 10 Tishri (Yom Kippur) and ended seven years later on the same date, completing the 490 years (70 “weeks” of years). But this is NOT what happened. And after threescore and two weeks…(3.5 years or 42 months)… shall Messiah be cut off,…(from confirming the covenant with many)…but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. Daniel 9:26 KJV (insert is the author’s) After the 69 weeks, which ends on the day Jesus begins His earthly ministry, Jesus is “cut off,” but His earthly ministry is not cut off immediately after the beginning of His earthly ministry. It is cut off in the “midst” of the week (of years), i.e. 3.5 years, which coincides exactly with 14 Nisan, which is Passover, the day of His crucifixion. His ministry began on 10 Tishri, and He was “cut off” on 14 Nisan, exactly 3.5 years (42 months) after His ministry began. He was “cut off” not for Himself, but for the elect remnant of mankind who would be included in the eternal covenant planned by God from before the foundations of the world and fulfilled by the blood of His only begotten Son, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Man, the last Adam, and our Messiah. “Cut off” would be a strange metaphor to use for the death of Jesus Christ if it did not mean that He was “cut off” from confirming “the” covenant with many and completing the seven stated purposes of the decreed 70 weeks or 490 prophetic years. The phrase “cut off” is Strong’s H3772, transliterated as karath, with a primary meaning of something being cut off, with Messiah being the subject that is cut off, and what He is obviously cut off from is the confirming of the remainder of His seven covenant purposes. He fulfilled the first four of the seven purposes, but the final three purposes are not, yet, fulfilled.

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These future fulfilments include:

1) seal up vision; 2) seal up prophecy; 3) anoint the most holy (as Lord of lords and King of kings). 4) bring in everlasting righteousness -

Three years beginning on 10 Tishri plus that part of the fourth year beginning on 10 Tishri and ending on 14 Nisan is 42 prophetic months or 3.5 years, leaving 42 months or 3.5 years of Jesus confirming “the” covenant with many yet to be fulfilled in some future time frame. Therefore, 486.5 prophetic years have already been fulfilled, and only 3.5 years remain to be fulfilled. The “gap,” then, is not between the 69 weeks and the last week (7 prophetic years during which “the tribulation” supposedly occurs). The “gap” is between the earthly ministry of Jesus Christ prior to His resurrection and a final period of 42 prophetic months of the Lord’s ministry of confirming the covenant with many as He fulfills the final four purposes prophesied by Daniel. The immediate question that comes to mind is the seeming unlikelihood that the Lord still has three and a half years of confirming the covenant with many still to complete. Surely, the final four events of confirming the covenant with many, 1) sealing up the vision, 2) sealing up prophecy, 3) anointing the Holy of Holies (as King of kings and Lord of lords). 4) bringing in everlasting righteousness, will not take three and a half years. So, how can this be? What we note concerning this final three and a half years is that it is the same 3.5 years or 42 prophetic months that the antichrist “man of sin” is given to rule and reign on earth so that Satan’s full manifestation through the 7th and final beast kingdom strangely coincides with the remaining three and a half years of the Lord confirming the covenant with many, with the sealing of the 144,000, and with the opening of the 7th seal to begin that period the Lord identified as “great tribulation.” (Matthew 24:21). The “man of sin” will not deny the crucifixion of Christ on Passover, because He will claim to be Messiah returned on 15 Tishri, the feast of tabernacles, as he calls down fire from the spiritual realm in the power of Satan and in the viewing presence of the entire world.

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Related events in the 3.5 years or 42 prophetic months of the 7th seal: 1. The metaphorical 144,000 are sealed, but not removed from the earth;

2. The 7th seal is opened;

3. The antichrist “man of sin” rules, after declaring himself to be “God” and

“Messiah” on some future 15 Tishri, feast of tabernacles;

4. 3.5 years of “great tribulation”; 5. The “woman” is protected and nourished in the wilderness;

6. The Philadelphian believers are “kept” from harm during the “hour” (appointed

time of trial i.e. the final 3.5 years of the age);

7. The remainder of the seven purposes of the Lord, as identified in Daniel 9:24-27,

are fulfilled as He meets His saints on the 1 Tishri feast of trumpets, and returns

to the earth on the 10 Tishri feast of atonement to destroy His enemies, followed

by the 15 Tishri feast of tabernacles cleansing of the temple and celebration of

the beginning of 1000 years of His presence with His people for 1000 years on

earth.

We are, therefore, instantly alerted that these events are specifically related to one another. But how? At the time of the seventy weeks prophecy the only literal, future seven-year time frame that exists is the seven years from the first day of the Lord’s earthly ministry until the seven purposes of the seventy years are fulfilled. But, because He was “cut off” in the middle of the final seven years, the manner in which the Lord will finish confirming “the” covenant during this final 42 months or 3.5 years, which will begin on some future, ultimate fulfillment of Pentecost identified as the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, has been a HUGE mystery and has been sealed from our understanding until now. And he...(Jesus Christ)... shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the …(same)…week…(7 years)…he...(Jesus Christ)... shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he...(Jesus Christ)... shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined…(as judgment)… shall be poured upon the desolate…(Daniel’s people who have rejected Christ.) Daniel 9:27 KJV (inserts are the author’s) We note that in the midst of the week of seven prophetic years (i.e. 3.5 years), at His crucifixion, He, Jesus Christ, causes the covenant sacrifice and oblations (the continual burnt offerings of atonement) to cease. This passage does not mean that the literal

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sacrifice and offering ceased, but that the sacrifice and offering ceased to have any relationship with the covenant He was confirming. On 14 Nisan, appointed by God as the final day of the first 42 prophetic months of “the” Prince, Jesus of Nazareth, making literal burnt offerings for the sins of the people, any future, literal burnt offerings in the temple ceased to have meaning or purpose. Thus, when practiced by the other “seeds” of Abraham from that day forward, they were, and will be at some point in our near future, an idolatrous, antichrist denial of the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ, and, therefore, an ABOMINATION in denial of the intent of the Father through the Son. This was demonstrated by the Father at the moment of the Lord’s death when the heavy curtain in the temple between the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies was supernaturally torn as if slashed by a gigantic sword (Matthew 27:51), indicating that the temple worship and sacrifice system no longer had any function, because the title-deed to the promises of God was no longer held by national, ethnic Israel. It was fulfilled to the One for whom it was always intended, “the” seed of Abraham, the Son of God, Son of Man, Jesus of Nazareth and all those who are spiritually incorporated in Him by faith, which is spiritual Israel, including both Jews and Gentiles as one new man, identified as the “Israel of God.” This also ended national, ethnic Israel’s covenant transgressions against God, but not their judgment in the form of decreed desolations. Hard core Zionist dispensationalists, completely sold out to Sir Robert Anderson’s interpretation of Daniel 9:24-27, note that a similar event described in Daniel 12:11, a passage that is, in fact, specifically related to the antichrist “man of sin,” are one and the same with the “sacrifice and oblation” of Daniel 9:27. There are deliberate similarities. The continual burnt offerings are offered for the purpose of the atonement of sin in those who offer the sacrifices. These continued to be practiced in Israel and were an “abomination” unto God after the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ. But the literal continual burnt offerings ceased in Israel in 70AD with the sacking of Jerusalem and destruction of the temple with not one stone left on top of the other just as Jesus prophesied. (Mark 13:2; Luke 19:42) In Daniel 12 the reference is to an event at the time of the end, long after the continual burnt offerings ceased to have any meaning because of the risen Christ. It is even long after the literal burnt offerings ceased when the temple was destroyed in 70AD. The only possible explanation is that the temple will be rebuilt, and the continual burnt offerings reinstituted into modern Jewish practice, which is the antichrist denial

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that Jesus was, and is now, the Messiah, whose atonement was fulfilled two millennia ago. At the same time we must remember that Satan masquerades as an angel of light, and his ultimate masquerade will be to claim messiahship for himself through the antichrist “man of sin” when he calls down fire from heaven and declares himself to be both God and Messiah in the secret chamber of the third temple (rebuilt by the Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement). Then, at that time he will command that the reinstituted daily sacrifice be taken away, because he, the false “Messiah,” has come, which will be interpreted by those who are deceived as the fulfillment of Daniel 12:11. (See The Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement) Speaking of the antichrist “man of sin” declaring himself to be Messiah: And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away,…(at the antichrist man of sin’s orders)…and the abomination…(claiming messiahship for himself)…that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days….(3.5 years)… Daniel 12:11 KJV In the first instance, recorded in Daniel 9, the offerings continued to take place, but they no longer had any covenant significance, because the eternal covenant was established when the blood of Jesus was sprinkled on the mercy seat of God at the Lord’s resurrection in fulfillment of the Feast of Firstfruits. In the second instance, recorded in Daniel 12, the antichrist “man of sin” claiming to be Jesus Christ returned to rule the world with an iron rod will stop the daily sacrifices in imitation of Christ Himself, daily sacrifices that will be initiated beforehand when the Third Temple is rebuilt and the false prophet initiates a reinstated Levitical priesthood and temple sacrifices in anticipation of their coming “Messiah.”

And on the very day that the antichrist “man of sin” calls down fire from heaven and declares himself to be Israel’s “Messiah” from the “secret chamber” of the Third Temple, the 7th seal is opened by the Lord, Jesus Christ, and the 3.5 years (42 prophetic months) of “great tribulation” begins.

Returning to Daniel 9:27 the “...he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation...” means that even if the temple is rebuilt by the Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement and a new Levitical priesthood initiates temple worship and sacrifices again, the temple will remain desolate and without the presence of God all the way up to the consummation, the full measure of judgment on the transgressors, which takes place on the coming day of the Lord. (10 Tishri, the feast of atonement) There is no time whatsoever after the resurrection of Jesus Christ, including the final three and a half years of “great tribulation” in which Jerusalem and national,

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ethnic Israel are not “desolate” all the way up to the great and terrible day of the Lord, when those who have pierced Him will look upon Him and grieve. Yet, Satan will perform mighty, “miraculous” works through the false prophet, and through the antichrist “man of sin” in order to convince both Israel and the world that the “man of sin” is Jesus Christ. Going back to Daniel 9:26 we see that the people of the prince who will come (a different “prince,” one who will come after the original “Messiah the prince”) shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. However, the “prince who will come” is not the antichrist “man of sin,” and there will be no revived Roman Empire. The crown prince of Rome was Titus, who later became Emperor of Rome, and it was his “people” who destroyed the city and the sanctuary in 70 AD. And, as the prophecy states, it was the people of this prince who continued the desolations until the end of the war. The end of verse seven is also the end of anything to do with the Roman Empire or its crown prince. Going to a parallel prophecy in Ezekiel 45:25, describing the ministry of the true “prince” during the initial fulfillment of the feast of tabernacles, 15 Tishri to 21 Tishri, the true “prince” will make exactly the same offerings for seven days. This is the spiritual fulfillment of the Feast of Tabernacles in which the “Prince,” Jesus of Nazareth, celebrates the fulfillment and completion of the seven purposes of the seventy weeks with spiritual Israel, the Israel of God, ushering in the millennial reign of Jesus Christ as “Lord” and “King,” and the fulfillment of God’s promises to spiritual Israel, the Israel of God through their incorporation into the spiritual body of Christ by grace through faith. Should it be a surprise to us, then, that the final seven prophetic years of Daniel’s prophecy relate to the Lord confirming THE covenant with many? Or that the desolations decreed upon national, ethnic Israel for their rejection of the Messiah will continue until the consummation on the 10 Tishri “great and terrible” day of the Lord? There is no separate covenant for the redemption of national, ethnic Israel apart from the New Covenant planned by God from before the foundations of the world. It is now, and has always been, God’s plan from the beginning to include the entirety of an elect remnant of fallen mankind, Jew and Gentile, as “one new man,” in a single covenant between Himself and the man, Jesus of Nazareth, the only seed of Abraham and Israelite of the lineage of David to fulfill the law and the prophets and thus qualify as the sinless lamb of God who would take away the sins of the world. Sir Robert Anderson, and all those who have accepted his false interpretation of Daniel 9:24-27, presume that a gap exists between the end of the 69th year and the

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beginning of the last week of years (7 years). But the unsealed, revelatory understanding is that “the” covenant of verse 27 is God’s covenant with Israel (fulfilled to spiritual Israel, the Israel of God), which the Lord begins confirming on the day He takes the scroll, and reads Isaiah 61:1,2. This was the beginning of the Lord’s earthly ministry and the beginning of His confirming (binding up) of the promised redemptive covenant with “many” that would be written in His blood. The presumption that the “he” who would confirm “the” covenant with many as being the antichrist “man of sin” signing a treaty with Israel and many other countries is completely false, and it is a deception specifically designed by the father of lies, to prevent the church from receiving the astonishing truth of Daniel’s prophecy. The antichrist “man of sin” will, in fact, dominate the political and spiritual Babylonian system, but he will begin his domination indirectly through the United Nations shortly after the Gog-Magog war when a large majority of sovereign country states surrender sovereignty to the United Nations, but not initially to the antichrist “man of sin”. The subject of Daniel 9:24-27 is also historically demonstrated through the statue kingdoms, starting with national Israel’s return to Israel from the Babylonian captivity, then consecutively falling under the rule of the Medo-Persian empire, the Greek empire under Alexander, and the Roman empire under Titus, which is a literal, historic 483 years plus 3.5 prophetic years (1,260 days) of the Lord’s public ministry until His resurrection. This is followed by the FUTURE, final 3.5 prophetic years (1260 days) of the Lord confirming “the” covenant with many that begins with the opening of the 7th seal. The true revelatory “gap,” then, is between the 483 years from the decree to rebuild the temple plus the time of the Lord’s 3.5 years of earthly ministry confirming “the” covenant with many, and the final 3.5 years of His confirming of “the” covenant with many. Seven prophetic years equals 2,520 days. 3.5 prophetic years equals 1260 days. Day 1: 10 Tishri (Yom Kippur) The Lord receives the scroll, opened to Isaiah 61:1,2, and He declares that the prophecy is fulfilled, which is THE day on which His confirming of the covenant began. Day 1260: (3.5 years or 42 months) The Lord is “cut off” from confirming the covenant with many on 14 Nisan (Passover) Day 1,261: The GAP between the first 3.5 years or 42 prophetic months and the final 3.5 years ends on some future Pentecost (6 Sivan) after the wise virgins, a.k.a. the end time Philadelphian church, have endured and overcome their persecution by the

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Babylonian world system during the 4th, 5th, and 6th seals of “tribulation,” and these are sealed during the “interlude” (Rev.7) immediately before the opening of the 7th seal. These are identified as the metaphorical 144,000, whose literal number may be in the millions. These represent the perfection of spiritual Israel, the “Israel of God” in Christ, who have overcome and prevailed in the war of the beast kingdom against the body of Christ during the 4th, 5th, and 6th seal events of “tribulation.” These are then completely redeemed as the firstfruits offering of the “wheat” harvest, which is the ultimate fulfillment of Pentecost, and the 7th seal is opened, beginning the final 3.5 years of “great tribulation.” (Jesus was the firstfruits of the entire harvest, represented by a barley sheaf without leaven. These are firstfruits of the wheat harvest whose leaven has been covered by the blood of the Lamb) Day 1,261 (the beginning of 7th seal “great tribulation”) to Day 2,520 (1 Tishri – Feast of Trumpets): 12 is the number for the kingdom of God. Israel was the initial kingdom of God present in the world, but the body of Christ became the representative kingdom of God after the resurrection of Jesus Christ (i.e. 12 apostles). 12 x 12 = 144. This metaphorically represents the entire number of born-again Christians, whether Jew or Gentile, who have been “sealed” and fully redeemed as “firstfruits of the wheat harvest” on some future Pentecost during the brief interlude between the 6th and 7th seal. It is these, then, who bring in the 7th seal general wheat harvest of an uncountable number, i.e. the “multitude” from every nation, tribe, and tongue as they minister in the earth in their sealed and fully redeemed bodies in perfect communion with Christ and with one another for 42 prophetic months or 3.5 years. (The fulfillment of Ephesians 4:13 and the specific manner in which the Lord confirms the covenant for the remaining 3.5 years of His total 7-year confirmation of the New Covenant written in His Blood). On day 2,520, the 1 Tishri, the feast of trumpets, the Lord appears visibly in the sky with His angels to gather the elect, living and dead, on the last day resurrection of the elect remnant of mankind, and the confirming of the covenant with many is complete. Author’s note: I only gained the revelatory truth concerning Daniel 9:24-27 because others pointed the way, and I deliberately and diligently sought the fullness of this truth until it was confirmed to me by the Spirit of truth. In this He sent me a dream in which I picked up a bow and shot an arrow at a target with a red bullseye. The arrow hit dead center, and as I looked down, I found a Clovis point, a rare, pre-historic Indian artifact. The Clovis point was beautifully crafted except for an unfinished point, which He caused me to understand was that sharp point of prophetic insight into Daniel’s prophecy that He has not, yet, unsealed. But the sharp point of this prophecy will be unsealed to this generation at the appropriate time.

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